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[Flat Black]

I did some searching and found threads for cars in movies and racing movies per se, but none for favorite racing scenes in movies. So that's what this thread is for.

I'm a huge fan of James Bond (the films and the fiction), and one of the best is On Her Majesty's Secret Service. And improbably enough, it features a scene of Bond and his leading lady gate-crashing a stock car race in Switzerland, in December, at night! Totally crazy and bizarre, but that's the world of Bond for you. And it's a riveting scene.

Anyway, there's a start for you. Take it away, boys.

[Vitesse2]

Here's a few ...

[Macca]

Has anyone managed to sit through the modern remake of 'On The Beach' with Armand Assante and Bryan Brown, to see if there is a racing scene as in the Nevil Shute novel nd the 1959 film?

It's been on satellite recently but I haven't seen it through.........

Paul M

[LotusElise]

Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things has a Brooklands scene that I really like, with cars and drivers lent by the Ten Tenths mob. Parts of it look like they were shot at Brooklands, too.

[taylov]

Originally posted by LotusElise
Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things has a Brooklands scene that I really like, with cars and drivers lent by the Ten Tenths mob. Parts of it look like they were shot at Brooklands, too.

I think someone raised this on TNF at the time of the film's release and it was concluded it wasn't Brooklands.

I know that the marine scenes were shot at Tilbury and off the Dorset Coast on board the SS Shieldhall, a preserved steamship which was based at Southampton a few years ago - where it is known with some affection as the SS **** Shoveller - a reference to one of the ships earlier roles in the "waste trade"

Tony.

[LotusElise]

"Dover" in BYT was actually Swanage in Dorset, because I recognised it.
The racing "action scenes" were more likely to have been filmed somewhere with a continuous track, but I thought there were a few shots of the clubhouse and Members' Banking at the beginning?

[Pavel Lifintsev]

Originally posted by Macca
Has anyone managed to sit through the modern remake of 'On The Beach' with Armand Assante and Bryan Brown, to see if there is a racing scene as in the Nevil Shute novel nd the 1959 film?

No. Bryan Brown's hero drives his red Ferrari F355 on some empty race track, then runs into the billboard (crash made with very poor computer graphics). Nothing to watch there I'm afraid.

[racer69]

Originally posted by .ru


No. Bryan Brown's hero drives his red Ferrari F355 on some empty race track, then runs into the billboard (crash made with very poor computer graphics). Nothing to watch there I'm afraid.

The empty track used is Phillip Island from memory, the Ferrari goes through the billboard (somehow) at MG hairpin

[brucemoxon]

Originally posted by racer69


The empty track used is Phillip Island from memory, the Ferrari goes through the billboard (somehow) at MG hairpin

Yeah, he goes straight ahead at the first corner, full noise into the sign. Second the nomination for the bad graphics.

There is a glimpse of a Brabham single-seater in Bryan Brown's character's garage, when Armande and Rachel Ward are collecting the Ferrari.

But 'most everyone just takes the pills, rather than messing up their nice cars this time.



Bruce Moxon